Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia, the Chairperson of the BNP, is scheduled to have a health checkup at Evercare Hospital on Thursday afternoon.

BNP media cell member Sayrul Kabir Khan stated, "Madam (Khaleda) is scheduled to go to Evercare Hospital around 4 pm for health check-up, as per the advice of her medical board."

He indicated that the BNP leader will visit the hospital for certain required medical examinations.

After more than five months of therapy at Evercare Hospital for a variety of health issues, the BNP CEO went home on January 11.

Since then, she has been getting care at her home in Gulshan under the supervision of the medical board that the Evercare Hospital had established previously.

She became ill out of the blue and was brought to the hospital on August 9 of last year.

The 78-year-old former prime minister has long suffered from a number of illnesses, such as diabetes, kidney, lung, heart, and eye problems, as well as diabetes, arthritis, and liver cirrhosis.

The transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) technique was performed on October 26 by three US specialty physicians to halt the bleeding in Khaleda Zia's liver and the accumulation of water in her stomach and chest.

Since November 2021, when Khaleda was diagnosed with liver cirrhosis, her physicians had advised moving her overseas.

The family of the BNP leader also requested authorization from the government on several times, but the Law Minister said that Khaleda was released on terms that suspended her sentence in corruption charges, thus there is no way for her to receive treatment overseas.

The BNP leader has been undergoing treatment at the hospital since her conditional release from jail in 2020, under the supervision of a medical board led by cardiologist Prof. Shahabuddin Talukder.

On February 8, 2018, Khaleda was convicted to five years in jail by a lower court in the Zia Orphanage Trust corruption case. She was then sent to the Old Dhaka Jail. She was later found guilty in the same year in another corruption case.

On March 25, 2020, the government issued an executive order suspending Khaleda Zia's sentence in the midst of the coronavirus epidemic, subject to her staying at her Gulshan home and not leaving the nation. Since then, it has been repeatedly extended in order to keep her out of jail.

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